Ok... I know, I've flogged fish dinner to death to get it and keep it in the best nodes, and, just to be fair and show I'm a good sport, vote pVoice 0.01!

But anyway, there are those who will say I'm just 'fish'ing for XP here, that I've been 'cast'ing around for new ideas but could on 'land' this one (they may be right :). They may just say I'm 'hooked' on it. The 'reel' truth is that I'm jealous of Erudil's Camel Code t-shirt.

So, here I was, thinking to myself, why not fish dinner on a t-shirt. Why? Because it's not cute! Only perl programmers would really get it, it needs a cute animal shape to make it appealing to the masses! What shape? a FISH, duh! But I figured it would never fit into the shape of a fish... guess I was wrong :)

I'll understand if people don't upvote this if they already voted fish dinner up, but I think this is a cool manipulation of it, enjoy 

#!/usr/bin/perl
                          use
                            Carp;
                     unpack fish, spices;
        croak     fish if $alive; study recipe,
           pop in, time; BEGIN {meal}; tied  %bib;
             scalar fish; fork, split; sqrt  lemon;
           glob tartarsauce; chop, open(MOUTH),
        chomp;    unlink flesh; truncate bone,chomp;
                      untie %bib; push plate;
                             END {meal};
                            sleep
                          now;

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so, there it is :) Well... maybe it's not cute enough for a t-shirt... but I can try! :)

                - Ant
                - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner

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Re: Fish Dinner, Revisited...
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Sep 24, 2001 at 08:16 UTC
    I think the concept is dead-on. (I was one who discussed T-shirt on CD the other night) But the orignal poem reads properly in a statement-by-statement basis. Reflowing it disturbs that. So, the new version is not as good as the original--cuter, but not as good of a read.

    Ideas: manipulate the font and other artistic effects as well. Don't break a statement, using effect to tie them together when needed. That should work everywhere except the croak in the fin, which has to be separated in space. Perhaps tie it together with color?

    The % nicely becomes the eye.

    If the fish were facing the other way, then the #! line could become a fishing pole, with a line drawn over the text.

    —John

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      Hehe, manipulating the font params usually isn't an option where I write my code... not on a per character basis, anyway... :) suppose it could be done on the web page. I do agree that it reads a little better line by line the original way, but it isn't that bad this way.

      Fishing pole... heehee...

                      - Ant
                      - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner

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        I mean for the T-shirt, which is not your typical development environment. Then again, the little tag that has laundry instructions should also have compilation instructions, right?

        Probably do it in PhotoShop with each piece being a separate layer. A vector drawing program is better, but PS is what I've got and what I'm good at.

        FWIW, the editor I use does change fonts and sizes all over the place, based on syntax.

        —John

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